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The husband of a missing woman has been arrested under suspicion of murder. David Viens was arrested as he recuperates from the injuries he received last week when he jumped off a cliff. He was trying to evade Sheriff’s deputies in Rancho Palos Verdes where the height of the cliff was 80 feet. Today officials…

A fight at an Irvine home sent one man to the hospital with a stab wound to the chest back in April of 2009. The victim was Andre Murillo, and on February 8, 2011, a trauma surgeon, Dr. Nastanski, testified at the preliminary hearing of Defendant Abdullah Wahadi. The defendant is charged with attempted murder…

In 1993 , James Florville, 82, and his wife, Madelynne, 72 were stabbed to death in their Mead Valley home. Today, January 31, 2011, Albert Jones, the convicted murderer, was sentenced to death by the State Supreme Court of California. While the state court upheld the death sentence, two justices expressed concern about racial bias…

In 2005 former USC student, Holly Ashcraft, arrived at a Southern California Hospital showing signs of having just given birth. Police were unable to locate the infant which she claimed was still born. Los Angeles Prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to try her for murder but settled for a lesser child of endangerment in 2008. Ms. Ashcraft…

By any measure Roy Laird appeared to be a doting husband when it concerned his ailing 86 year old wife Clara. Even as she deteriorated to the point where her daughter described her mind as being “gone”, he continued to take care of her. Finally, he reluctantly put her in a senior home. Then on…

A jury found Andrew Gallo guilty of three counts of second-degree murder, two felony counts of driving under the influence resulting in great bodily injury and a felony hit and run. After colliding with the victim’s car as he went more then 65 miles an hour, Gallo fled the scene on foot. His injured stepbrother was at the scene.…

Who can forget the infamous case of Amanda Knox, the young American girl sentenced to 26 years for brutally murdering her British roommate while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy? Well, an interesting twist has now developed in this sordid tale which may help Knox’s appeal. An Italian mobster currently serving time, has given a videotaped…

Convicted murder Rodney Alcala has again been sentenced to death for two murders from the 1970’s. The case gained attention outside of Orange County and has been featured in print and television news as Alcala represented himself on his third trial for multiple murders after the prior trials were reversed on appeal. Alcala also defended…

A death penalty hearing is set for Tanya Jaime Nelson in Orange County Superior Court; she was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for stabbing Ha “Jade” Smith and her daughter Anita Vo. The motive for the murders was that Ha Smith a fortune teller, told Nelson she would do better by moving her…

On December 4, 2009, an Italian jury found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty on all counts in the stabbing death of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Knox was given a 26-year sentence; Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. Both will be appealing their cases. In the meantime, below is…